Yeah he was ridiculously overconfident about the Yudkowsky-Bostrom paradigm in that video, and judging from the comments it just turned people off. Maybe his stuff works on people who identify emotionally with LW memes and feel affirmed when overconfidently endorses them?
What makes him charismatic in person? In his youtube videos he’s extremely uncharismatic, inarticulate, and even difficult to understand...
Here’s a good example
I met him once and didn’t feel much charisma, he just sounded overconfident about all things. I’m sure it works on some people though.
Yeah he was ridiculously overconfident about the Yudkowsky-Bostrom paradigm in that video, and judging from the comments it just turned people off. Maybe his stuff works on people who identify emotionally with LW memes and feel affirmed when overconfidently endorses them?
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